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- 01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited
preferences for such programming over alien, standardized content often manifest themselves. “There are many other dynamics that can also undercut the viability of globally standardized products over time,”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
associated with populism; Abdelal is a political scientist who has studied Russia for the last 25 years and directs Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Here, they sat down over Zoom to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
say, ‘I’m not allowed to bribe.’ Others prefer ambiguous instructions so they can do what they have to do to get the business and keep up with the competition.” But managing in such a culture where signals are mixed can be a tricky... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln’s president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
our new fund, is likely to be very similar in its composition. You didn’t use the term Web 2.0 to describe your investment prospects. Why not? It almost never gets mentioned here. We talked a lot about Web 2.0 in 2003 and 2004 as we looked View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
Business Review to Levitt, who posted his preference for the active voice, vigorous verbs, and shorter sentences in the staff bathrooms. “Someone said it was bizarre,” Levitt told USA Today. “Chacun à son... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
that it hoped would revolutionize footwear for trail runners and so-called sky runners who prefer high elevations. Instead of a sole that is hard on the bottom and soft in the middle, Timberland’s in-house... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
managers were women. Google’s disclosures led other major tech companies to follow suit. Apple (98,000 employees) and Twitter (3,300 employees), for instance, reported similar overall percentages: about 70 percent men and 30 percent... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans
into a digital platform that not only offers video lessons, but educational tools and tests for teachers, students, and parents through its Khan Academy Districts program, which at last count was in use by more than 280 districts across... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
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How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
find, kind of a new group, and my vote and my preference and my inclination is that this group, given how talented and smart and hardworking they are, most of them will make the journey. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
vision," they say, "is to be the preferred provider of food for West Africans." Ndidi and Mezuo, both children of university professors, approach the ambitious challenge with a combination of academic rigor... View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
a scholar who prefers to work alongside colleagues who complement his skills, often citing their contributions above his own. JH: Can you talk a little bit about what collaboration looks like for you just on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million View Details